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  1. Wired article: "The Great Library of Amazonia" on Amazon Launches Full Text Book Search · · Score: 5, Informative

    Article in December Wired talks about Amazon's book scanning, how they legally do it, who does it, how many books so far, and protections.

  2. When you care enough to send the very best on Psychologist Consoles Data Loss Victims · · Score: 1

    Hallmark and American Greetings are missing a market for these data loss victims by not having a line of sympathy cards. Someone who loses all of their data would be comforted to receive cards from friends and loved ones saying, "Sorry for your loss" and some nice poem inside.

    Your data is gone,
    but it'll be okay.
    Just live to see
    another day.
    I know your heart
    feels sad and floppy,
    so next time I hope
    you keep a safe copy.

    Sorry for your loss,
    Love, Enigmia Man

  3. Hokey Spokes-how soon for autos? on Geek Christmas Gift Ideas · · Score: 2, Interesting

    These things are future-scary. How soon before we see Pepsi ads on the wheels of school buses?

  4. Passphrase Locker on Palm Introduces Affordable Zire · · Score: 2, Informative

    People have mentioned previously that they have no use for the Palm PDA. The best use for the Palm is as an encrypted passphrase locker. If this $99 palm came with that preinstalled, it would help lots of people keep their passphrases secure. Ever count how many different PINS, passwords, passphrases you need to have for all your accounts? It is staggering. I'll bet a lot of people use the same one over and over - a tremendous security risk. With an encrypted passphrase locker, (perhaps such as ccrypt or others ) it makes it easy to create a new one for each account. And it also allows you to make passphrases that aren't so easy to remember, such as "IH3ART/.OK?" What some folks don't realize is that their passphrases into web sites are completely readable by the admin. If they use the same one over and over, they are asking for trouble.

  5. Wanna small cup? on The Golden Age of Cup Manufacturing · · Score: 1

    If you want to really get a small cup at a fast food place, just ask for an "ice water." The thimble they give you couldn't hold one of their ice cubes.

  6. Color Blinkenlights on Big Berlin Blinkenlichten · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Too bad they didn't use three lamps per window; red, green, and blue. Each controlled by a digital dimmer with 256 levels. The resolution would be even greater than the icons in your favorites folers.

  7. Re:PGP on Making PKI Work · · Score: 2

    So far, I've only seen one centralized CA that's helped me to take advantage of both systems, namely thawte.
    They used to provide signatures to PGP keys as one of the certificate formats; unfortunately they discontinued PGP support last december for technical reasons.


    Hmmm, I wonder if one of those "technical reasons" might be that Verisign bought them and that Verisign is an X.509 champion?